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NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English<\/a><\/p>\n

The Adventure NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 7<\/h2>\n

The Adventure NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers<\/h3>\n

The Adventure About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle-Narlikar theory. In 1966, Fred Hoyle established Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge, and Narlikar served as the founding staff member of the institute during 1966-72. In 1972, Narlikar took up Professorship at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India.<\/p>\n

The Adventure Main Theme<\/strong><\/p>\n

The author, Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, is an astrophysicist of international repute. This is another science fiction that he has offered to his readers. The story contains an episode of a person being in another dimension of history. The basic premise is \u201cWhat would have been the state of affairs if a certain crucial event had taken place differently?\u201d The event in question here is the Third Battle of Panipat. The author has visualised the situation as if Marathas won the war and Vishwas Rao remained alive to lead his people.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Gaitonde travels to Bombay which is under the British. He feels it is different from how he knows it to be. He looks for traces of his son in the city but does not find any. He consults history books written by himself and finds a different account of the battle of Panipat. The Marathas won the battle and became very powerful and had influence all over India. In the twentieth century, they put up centres of science and technology with the help of the British. In the twentieth century, India moved towards democracy, but the Sultanate of Delhi continued and Bombay remained a British territory. In this India, ruled by the Marathas, the people were confident and self-reliant.<\/p>\n

Prof. Gaitonde wanted to know how this had happened. He looked at the history books again and discovered that Vishvas Rao did not die of bullet injury. A bullet brushed past his ear and he was in no danger.In the evening, after the library closed, Prof. Gaitonde went to Azad Maidan where a meeting was in progress. He noticed that there was no chairperson. He himself went up to the dais and started speaking. The public, however, chased him away.<\/p>\n

After this, he found himself in the present time speaking to his friend, Rajendra. He still had the \u2018Bakhar\u2019 In his pocket from the library and had been missing for two days.<\/p>\n

Where had he gone? His friend Rajendra tried to rationalise this experience on the basis of two theories\u2014 the catastrophe theory or \u2018a crucial event gone the other way\u2019 and the lack of determinism in the quantum theory, which means that the behaviour of electrons in atoms cannot be predicted. Rajendra says that \u2018catastrophic situations offer radically different alternatives for the world to proceed. Therefore, there was a bifurcation in the battle of Panipat and Prof. Gaitonde experienced a different world not in past or future but at the present time.<\/p>\n

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How this happened is a mystery to science. Prof. Gaitonde had a collision with a truck and was thinking of the Battle of Panipat at that moment. Probably, that caused the transition.<\/p>\n

The Adventure Understanding the text<\/strong><\/p>\n

I. Tick the statements that are true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nThe story is an account of real events.
\nAnswer:
\nFor discussion only\u2014to be conducted by the teacher as spoken activity. Any point of view may be taken.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nThe story hinges on a particular historical event.
\nAnswer:
\nFor discussion only\u2014to be conducted by the teacher as spoken activity. Any point of view may be taken.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nRajendra Deshpande was a historian.
\nAnswer:
\nFalse<\/p>\n

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Question 4.
\nThe places mentioned in the story are all imaginary.
\nAnswer:
\nFalse<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\nThe story tries to relate history to science.
\nAnswer:
\nTrue<\/p>\n

II. Briefly explain the following statements from the text.<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\n\u201cYou neither travelled to the past nor the future. You were in the present experiencing a different world.\u201d
\nAnswer:
\nThe story is based on the theory that catastrophic situations offer radically different alternatives. Prof. Gaitonde experienced a different world where he spent two days. In that world a catastrophic event, the Third Battle of Panipat, had a different outcome.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\n\u201cYou have passed through a fantastic experience: or more correctly, a catastrophic experience.\u201d
\nAnswer:
\nProf. Gaitonde had experienced living in a different world which had a different history. The bifurcation took place in the Battle of Panipat, which had a different outcome. In this world Marathas had won the Battle and Vishwas Rao had remained alive to lead India. Consequently, the British presence in India was confined to Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.<\/p>\n

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Question 3.
\nGangadharpant could not help comparing the country he knew with what he was witnessing around him.
\nAnswer:
\nThe country which Prof. Gaitonde knew had endured British rule for two centuries, whereas in the other world they had a very minor presence. The Marathas had supremacy all over India. The Mughals were confined to Delhi. The Peshwas had taken steps to ensure scientific and technological advance in the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Question 4.
\n\u201cThe lack of determinism in quantum theory !\u201d
\nAnswer:
\nThe behaviour of very small systems like atoms and their constituents, cannot be predicted definitively even if all the physical laws governing those systems are known. For example, if an electron is shot, it cannot be said with certainty where it will go. This is lack of determinism in the quantum theory.<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\n\u201cYou need some interaction to cause a transition.\u201d
\nAnswer:
\nRajendra was not quite clear about how the transition from this world to another was made by
\nProf. Gaitonde. He explained the occurrence thus. At the time of the collision with a truck
\nProf. Gaitonde was thinking about the Catastrophe Theory and its role in wars. He was also thinking about the Battle of Panipat. Perhaps the neurons in his brain acted as a trigger. This interaction brought about the transition.<\/p>\n

The Adventure Talking about the text<\/strong><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nDiscuss the following statements in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.<\/p>\n

(i) A single event may change the course of the history of a nation.
\nAnswer:
\nThe following points may be discussed. the death\/survival of a leader, e.g. what if Mahatma Gandhi had died before India got free.
\n(i) the outcome of a war, e.g. what if Italy and Germany had won the Second World War.<\/p>\n

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(ii) Reality is what is directly experienced through the senses.
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n